Adding tracks

[Admin]

Scott, 

I am using wave files. 

I have been looking at franklin
audio (since I already have franklin 3d) 

However, how would I handle
tracks? 

Mike 

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:42:39 -0700, Scott Rossi wrote:


> That's a lot of questions you have there.
> 
> The general opinion
I'll toss out is on the issue of managing tracks, since
> this seems to
be the core of your application. IMO, you'll be hard pressed
> to do
what you describe using native capabilities of LiveCode -- it's not
>
really suited to playing tracks back-to-back seamlessly, nor playing
loops
> seamlessly. Synching multiple channels is not easy.
> 
> One
thing you might try is looking at an external called Franklin Audio
>
(http://www.franklin3d.com/products/franklin-audio [3]). It provides a
bunch of
> audio capabilities beyond the stock offerings of LiveCode. It
also doesn't
> rely on QuickTime, which could be helpful. I haven't used
it myself to
> produce the types of things you're after, but you may
have a better chance
> using that package.
> 
> If you *DO* decide to
tackle sequence playback natively in LiveCode, I'd
> suggest using
imported WAV files. In my experience, using a player object
> (or
multiple player objects) simply cannot accomplish the results above.
But
> even then, your playback options are limited, so the external is
probably
> your best bet at this point.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Regards,
>

> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
>
Recently, Admin wrote:
> 
>> Now for a hard one. I am writing a program
called GrooveBlox. I created a menu and have a Track menu - where the
user can add and delete tracks, like a sequencer program. Tracks are
like layers and will be able to be moved around, added to, etc. The idea
is to have rectangles (colored) that represent grooves. I want the user
to be able to drag and drop the groove rectangles onto a track (they
will SNAP in place) and build all kinds of grooves. I need to write our
the flow diagram still, but I want to get started on it. The audio files
are wave files and more than enough are done to create a product. Here
is my question list (it will grow): How will I create the tracks - are
they groups or are they substacks? How to add tracks to the main stack
(track holder)? How to make the tracks SNAP into place, one beneath the
other? How to move the various tracks above or below each other and
therefore adjust the layers? How to scroll the track holder once there
are too many tracks to fit on one screen? How to drag and drop the
colored rectangles onto the tracks using SNAP (very important since the
grooves are an exact size and loop precisely)? How to add the rectangles
to the holding bin? How to assign the wave file to the colored
rectangle? How to play all the tracks in sync with one another? How to
adjust the panning with the panning slider? How to adjust the volume
with the volume slider? How to create a looping function so you can hear
the groove play over and over, and add/subtract/edit tracks while it is
playing in sync? How to write a final wave file mixing all the tracks
together. Is this the kind of program that requires a client-side
database to keep things remembered? Anyone's help is appreciated. Mike
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